Jill Stein has officially filed for a recount of the presidential vote in Wisconsin. (Christopher Dolan/The Citizens' Voice via AP)

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With just 90 minutes to go before the deadline, Jill Stein officially filed for a recount in Wisconsin, NBC News reports. The state acknowledged it received the petition from the Green Party presidential nominee Friday afternoon. The recount is expected to cost $1.1 million. According to the AP, Wisconsin has never performed a presidential recount before, but state law allows for one if a candidate asks for it—and can pay for it. As of Friday, Stein had raised more than $5 million dollars for recounts in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. The money will go toward attorneys, filing costs, and recount observers.

Momentum for the "long-shot" recounts in three states where the final vote was markedly different from polling is growing due to Hillary Clinton's massive lead in the popular vote and concerns about possible Russian hacking. The Clinton campaign hasn't commented on recount efforts. While Stein eventually made Friday's deadline in Wisconsin, her wait until the last minute prompted skepticism on social media. "Jill Stein at Nordstrom, telling the sales girl she'll get one in each color," reads one tweet. "A cackling Jill Stein floats off into the sunset in a massive golden blimp with 'RECOUNT' emblazoned on the side," reads another. The recount deadlines in Pennsylvania and Michigan are next week.

NATO Secretary-General JENS STOLTENBERG & EU Foreign Policy Chief FEDERICA MOGHERINI : What we know the reason why Russian President Mr. Putin's popularity is because Putin's oneself really knows best how (Putin) to borrow an American black man Barack Obama's ruse to play his same Putin's promotional gimmick in Russia's domestic affairs within these past 8 years of Obama's black-man presidency, really no more than ruse to create Putin's limelight to compliment with an American housewife Hillary Clinton's social intercourse, that's not foreign policy and affairs at all. The coming 4 years to suffer a pro-Russia, anti-NATO American Donald Trump's Nazi white nationalist policy to sell USA to USSR; the EU and NATO really need to IGNORE Trump's presidency on War-and-Peace may endanger and harm our European NATO's Rapid Armed Forces; NOT to honor to a non-EU, pro-Russia foreigner Trump's Nazi white nationalism to dominate Western Europe and North America's Canada to elect an European citizen to EU's NATO's Commander-in-Chief to lead the Western Europe's Sovereignty and to separate with the US Pentagon and nuclear combination codes with European defense. This way, Europe and NATO can be safe WITHOUT Trump's 4 years of Nazi White House.

Veritas

Nov 27, 2016 12:28 PM CST

Has Jill Stein ever had a real job?

Reilley

Nov 27, 2016 12:01 PM CST

Please do not tell me that there is anyone who is STUPID enough to actually believe that Jill Stein is behind this, please, please, don't tell me that!